hostbuddy

Inspiration

Imagine visiting a doctor is like going to a DMV..

Unfortunately that is the reality in many of the developing economies. When patient has to see a doctor, front desk gives them paper token, and patient has to wait on-premise until your number is called.

I have personally experienced waiting hours to see doctor, when I took my elderly to the doctors in India.

What it does

We bring virtrual front-desk to 1 billion facebook messenger users across the world through text and natural language processing.

Look up a provider,

add yourself to the wait-list,

get notified just-intime.

Rate the provider.

Ratings can't gamed, only authentic visits will be able to rate the service, hence more reliable compared to the old products like Yelp.

How I built it

Create a Facebook App and Page

Setup Webhook
3.Subscribe the App to the Page

Receive Messages

Implement structured messages and Postbacks

Challenges I ran into

-Needed SSL certificate to enable https for my server.

Understanding intents and entities as part of Natural language processing.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Implemented rich message bubbles, please see the screenshot.

What I learned

How to build a bot

What's next for hostbuddy

Instant access to health records, which could save money, and even save lives